Month: February 2017

Would one trillion even be enough? Just in the past few weeks, the PA/NJ Turnpike Connector Bridge was shut down after a crack in a support beam was discovered. No idea when this 60 year old bridge will reopen. Over the weekend we heard about how the biggest dam in the country started to fail… Read more

Chances are, if you’ve watched HGTV or A&E since the mid ’00s, you’ve seen a show or two about houses getting “flipped”. Maybe it was South Carolina, or Vegas, or Southern California… but anywhere there’s a bustling housing market, you have people “flipping” houses. The premise of house-flipping is seemingly simple. Find an underpriced, run-down house, quickly fix… Read more

I was over at Jeremy’s house for New Year’s last month. As I drove through his young, trendy neighborhood, I noticed how relatively peaceful and quiet it was on what was a traditionally raucous night. And as I looked around, I saw a lot of construction… and a lot of finished houses with well-worn “For… Read more